Shelf for stoves



NITE TATES HENRY TERSTEGGE, OF NEYV ALBANY, INDIANA.

SHELF FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,945, dated September 25, 1888.

Application filed August 10, 1885. Serial No. 113,979.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY Tnnsrnoen, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Albany, in the county of Floyd and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shelves for Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to stoves and portable ranges; and it consists of a shelfadapted to be attached to the legs of the stove or range,which will provide a projecting shelf or hearth beneath the oven-door.

Stoves and ranges are often provided with folding and other shelves or hearths beneath the oven-doors. The utility of these constructions is apparent, as the pans or vessels taken from the oven are very hot and cannot be easily handled or carried any distance away from the stove. The shelves or hearths usually placed beneath oven-doors are very narrow or are connected with the door of the oven and made to fold by closing the same. These constructions do not answer the requirements or effect all the results desired in this connection, as the narrow hearths will only support small vessels or pans, and it is sometimes desirable to have the articles removed from the oven remain upon the shelf or support a considerable time, which cannot be done where the shelves are closed by the oven-door, or where a narrow shelf attached to the stove is employed.

My invention is designed to remedy these defects and to combine with a shelf below the oven-door a shelf of considerable extent ex tending beneath the stove, whereby articles may be removed from the oven, dropped upon the projecting shelf, and then shoved backward and allowed to remain until sufficiently cooled to be handled.

I have illustrated my invention in the ac companying drawings, and said invention is fully disclosed in the following specification and claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ofa portable range or stove,showing the shelf secured in place and forming a projecting shelf or hearth beneath the oven-door. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the base of the (No model.)

stove or range, showing the manner of attaching the shelf to the legs. Fig. 3 is a view of the legs of the stove.

In the drawings, A represents the shelf, supported by the legsB of thestove and provided with a projecting portion, a, forming a projecting hearth or shelf beneath the oven-door. The legs B are of the usual concave form, and are provided upon their inner faces with a horizontal web or bracket, 1), which is preferably cast integral therewith. The corners of the shelfA are of such shape as to adapt themselves to the concavity of the legs and to rest upon the webs or brackets formed therein.

In placing the shelf A in its proper position two legs of the stove are first attached in the usual manner and the corners of the shelf placed upon the brackets of these legs; then the shelf is held in the proper position and the remaining legs secured to the stove. In this way the shelf will be secured to the stove so that it cannot become disengaged therefrom without removing two of the legs. In order that the projecting shelf or hearth a may extend from under the edge of the stove it is made slightly narrowed by cutting away a portion at two corners and forming the nec essary corners on the main body of the shelf to engage the brackets of the legs. This shelf in this instance extends beneath the entire bottom of the stove and forms a projecting hearth or shelfbeneath the oven-door on either side of the stove, and is also-exceedingly convenient for raising bread, drying fruit, and affords a convenient resting-place for hot sooty stove-covers and skillets and other cookingutensils, which are often too hot to find a convenient place for.

My invention is specially adapted to those ranges or stoves which are placed with one side in close proximity to a wall of the building in which they are used, and is made easily reversible,so thatthe projecting shelf or hearth shall extend outward from the side of the stove to which the location of the same gives most convenient access.

I am aware that clevatcdoveu stoves have been provided with shelves extending entirely under the ovens and attached to the rear legs and to the rear portion of the fire-pot in a ICO manner somewhat similar to my invention,

and I am also aware that lmnpstoves have been provided with a support for the lamp supported by the legs upheld beneath the top of the stove on the supporting-legs; but these constructions I do not claim.

W'hat I claim,'m1d desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A stove or range provided with a shelf extending beneath the same and renlovably sup- IO ported upon the legs of the stove said shelf having a portion projecting between two of the legs and forming a shelf or hearth below the oven-door, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY TERSTEGGE.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY J. TIAUIT, FRANK M. S'rn'rz. 

